The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott ... from northern aggression -- wrote in the Court's majority opinion that, because Scott was black, he was not a citizen ...

Except for Nelson’s, and for Grier’s two brief paragraphs, all the opinions ... majority vote of Congress. He could not then know that it would take a civil war to reverse Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Among the six cases in the document attributed to the NFRA was the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857 ... the ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

the court is of opinion, that.... Dred Scott was not a citizen of Missouri within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States, and not entitled as such to sue in its courts; and ...